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Thank You For 500 Subscribers! Venus, Jupiter & Sirius Together and The September Occultation!
First of all, I want to say thank you to everyone who has subscribed to my YouTube channel. I am delighted to be up at 500 subscribers, a little bit more now, so hopefully that number will continue to grow. In some of the most recent installments, I have taken a look at things that…
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An Spéir san Oíche i Mí Iúil | The Sky at Night in the Month of July
Today we will be looking ahead to the month of July. The first thing we will look at is something that we already know about. I’m going to talk about it again, but I have recently dealt with Mercury and its greatest elongation from the Sun. If you look back on the recent articles on…
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Transit of Venus, an Occultation, and Parallax
Today, we are going to take a look at parallax, or more so, we’re going to take a look at the transit of Venus. We’re also going to take another look at the occultation of Venus that’s coming up later this year. We’re going to jump forward to the same event that we took a…
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Deep Sky Objects: The Pegasus Cluster and Wandering Along the Milky Way
Today we are going to take a look at some deep sky objects. Deep sky objects are just objects outside of our solar system. In a way, the stars are deep sky objects, but we don’t really think of them as objects generally, they are just stars. Deep sky objects are things like other galaxies,…
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Mercury: Forewarning Before its Greatest Elongation!
Today we are going to take a quick look for the planet Mercury. In a recent video, I just about spotted Mercury just above the sunset towards the end of June. Now that we are into June, of course the sunset is going to be getting later, as late as it can get. That means…
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Parade of Planets 2028 and Mars/Mercury Occultation 2079
Today we are going to yet again take a look into the distant future, or not so distant future to begin with, to take a look at some upcoming events. These are yet more events that have been suggested by commenters, though one is a review of a previously observed event. Some of you may…
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The Planets and Constellations in June
Today, we are going to be taking a look at the night sky for the month of June. We have already looked at the night sky in June to various degrees, mostly looking at how little of a night we actually get in June, but we’re going to ignore that for this show and concentrate…
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Twilight and the Moon in June
Today we are going to have a look ahead to the coming month. We are going to look ahead to June, which is the month of the summer solstice, but we’re not going to talk about the solstice itself too much just yet. Just before we go all the way forward to June, we’re going…
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Solas na Gréine ag Meánoíche | Sunlight at Midnight
Today we will be looking ahead to the solstice and looking at sunlight visible at midnight. The attached video is an Irish language video, though English subtitles are provided as a convenience. We are looking ahead to the sky for summer, and during the summer Ireland uses Summer Time. Due to daylight savings, the time…
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